Typical RYLA Experience

WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS AT RYLA?

Sample RYLA Program

THURSDAY

3:00 - 4:30 Registration - McLaren Hall

4:30 - 5:20 Icebreaker

5:30 - 6:20 Dinner - Columbia Hall

6:30 - 7:30 Session 1 - Welcome and Expectations

7:30 - 8:45 Session 2 - "You're Up Front Now" (public speaking)

8:45 - 9:15 Session 3 - "Mindset" (increasing confidence)

9:15 Fire Pit (Cookies, marshmallows and conversation.)

FRIDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast - Columbia Hall

8:30 - 8:40 Warm-up - RYLA Volunteer

8:40 - 12 Noon Session 4 - Behavioural Styles (understanding yourself and others)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - Columbia Hall

1:10 - 2:30 Session 5 - Let's Think About Leadership

2:30 - 2:40 Break

2:40 - 3:50 Session 6 - The Joy of Conflict Resolution

3:50 - 5:30 Session 7 – Cardboard Boat Building

5:30 - 6:30 Dinner - Columbia Hall

6:30 - 7:30 Session 5 (Continued) – Cardboard Boat Building - Various Locations

7:30 - 8:30 Cardboard Boat Race

8:30 Fire Pit

SATURDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast - Columbia Hall

8:30 - 8:40 Warm-up - Ryla Volunteer

8:40 - 9:10 Session 6 - Debriefing the Boat race

9:10 - 10:40 Session 7 Fulfilling Your Potential and Being a Positive Force

10:40 - 10:50 Break

10:50 - 12:10 Session 8a – Ethics Discussion

12:10 - 1:00 Lunch

1:10 - 2:25 Session 8b – Ethics Case Study

2:30 - 3:40 Session 9a Session 9b – The CEO Is You!

3:40 - 3:50 Break

3:50 - 5:30 Session 10 - "Hunk O Junk" Team Planning Session

5:30 - 6:30 Dinner - Columbia Hall

6:45 - 8:00 Relax

8:00 - 9:15 Cruise

9:15 Campfire

SUNDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40 Warm-up - RYLA Volunteer

8:40 - 10:30 Session 11 - "Hunk O Junk" Last Minute Details and Presentations

10:35 - 10:45 Evaluation Forms and Break

10:45 - 11:45 Session 12 - Debrief Hunk O Junk

Team/Personal Reflections

11:45 - 12:00 RYLA Presentation – The Week in Video Review

12:15 - 1:00 Lunch

WHAT DO PARTICIPANTS THINK OF THEIR RYLA EXPERIENCE?

FORMER RYLA PARTICIPANT COMMENTS

What aspects of RYLA appealed to you most?

• The competitions and getting up in front of the group. Working with everyone. All the group things.
• Interactive aspects and personal stories during the sessions. The positive attitudes of leaders and mentors. RYLAthon and cruise.
• Leadership development, speaking skills, Canada
• The open atmosphere. It made communication and conveyance of ideas very easy and made people feel more comfortable with being themselves and showing their full potential.
• How powerful some of the sessions were to me.
• How everyone was so welcoming.
• Lots of team discussions, activities. Learn how to use different strengths to your advantage.
• The days were amazing because everything was appealing to me.
• The boat race and RYLAthon were both a lot of fun. Learning some new leadership skills and spending time with new people and mentors.
• Meeting new people and learning how to better understand yourself and express yourself.
• Boat building was a blast.
• Really enjoyed some of the challenging subjects (i.e. ethics and learning about personality types). Boat cruise in the thunderstorm. The FUN events (RYLAthon, boat race etc). Presentations and group discussions. Campfire and karaoke.
• Service above self philosophy
• The practical ways leadership skills are applied. The maturity of this young group of adults. The confident and energetic RYLA members.
• RYLAthon and the boat race. I loved the session on conflict. Hunk-o-junk.
• I appreciated the openness of my RYLA peers. I really enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends.
• The boat! Encouraging strangers to work together to build something.
• Working in teams and learning about different people's personalities.
• Fun, group work projects, meeting new people. Boat ride was awesome. Mentors were all fun people, easy to talk to.
• DISC. Hunk-o-junk. My strengths came out best because I like creative exercises.
• The chance to learn more about leadership and to work as part of a cohesive team.
• The interesting sessions, friendly outgoing mentors, and the team activities.
• Meeting high quality people, had some phenomenal networking opportunities.
• The practical applications of case studies.
• The people and mentors made you feel welcome, the team work.
• The team activities where extensive communication was required was great. It made veryone work as a unit and come closer together.
• Meeting new people. Understanding personality/behavioural styles.
• "Be an artist of your life" and "Who am I?" were truly genuine and really helped me understand myself better.
• At this stage of our lives we're about defining ourselves, realizing our core values and beliefs. To be placed in an environment which forces us to think about these issues is extremely beneficial.
• Team bonding and learning how to speak in public. Ethics and June's presentations were great
• Getting to know all the different qualities that people have and what makes a great leader. The network of friends is fantastic
• I really enjoyed myself. I got a lot of information that I know I will take with me. This is a weekend I will take with me for the rest of my life.
• I just want to thank everyone including RYLA for giving me the opportunity to come to this neat leadership conference because it made me understand myself and how I can change lives out there in the world.
• I loved it! Hope to come next year. Thank you!
• It was awesome.
• I got a great life experience and enjoyed my time here.
• A wonderful opportunity to learn.
• Thank you Rotary.
• I absolutely learned a great deal.
• All of the mentors have been a huge influence in how I view ethics and teamwork. The experiences the mentors to RYLA were great to learn from.
• Thank you so much. I appreciated this weekend and learned a lot about myself. I'd recommend RYLA to anyone!